Haggai
Chapters 1:2-8
Revised Version 1885
2Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time for the Lord'S house to be built.
3Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?
5Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways,
6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.